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How do horses read human emotional cues?
Credit: Photo taken by Ayaka Takimoto. Scientists demonstrated for the first time that horses integrate human facial expressions and voice...
Sticklebacks infected with parasites influence behavior of healthy fish
Credit: WWU/Jörn Scharsack Parasites which are passed on via the food chain often influence the behaviour of their host to...
Ratchet up the pressure: Molecular machine exploits motion in a single direction
Credit: Osaka University Osaka - Life is driven by molecular machines. Found in every cell, these tiny motors convert chemical...
Your brain anatomy may play a role in determining your food choices
Our indulgence in delicious but unhealthful food may not necessarily reveal a character flaw. Rather, our ability to exercise self-control...
The psychobiology of online gaming
When researchers looked at expression of a particular gene complex that is activated by chronic stress, they found differences depending...
Fat cells control fat cell growth
Obesity is the plague of our times. Some 80 percent of obese people will develop Type 2 diabetes at some...
Probiotics can protect the skeletons of older women
For the first time in the world, researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have demonstrated that probiotics, dietary supplements...
Garden seed diet for threatened turtle doves has negative impact
Credit: Jenny Dunn Young turtle doves raised on a diet of seeds from non-cultivated arable plants are more likely to...
Scientists print sensors on gummi candy
Credit: N. Adly / TUM Microelectrodes can be used for direct measurement of electrical signals in the brain or heart....
Exposure to fracking chemicals and wastewater spurs fat cell development
Credit: Chris Kassotis, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. - Exposure to fracking chemicals and wastewater promotes fat cell development, or adipogenesis,...
Novel therapy makes oxidative stress deadly to cancer
Credit: Phil Jones, AU Senior Photographer AUGUSTA, Ga. (June 21, 2018) - Oxidative stress can help tumors thrive, but one...
Fright and flight: Deciding when to escape
Credit: Sainsbury Wellcome Centre How does your brain decide what to do in a threatening situation? A new paper published...
Dying cancer cells make remaining glioblastoma cells more aggressive and therapy-resistant
Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A surprising form of cell-to-cell communication in glioblastoma promotes global changes in recipient cells, including...
Ketamine acts fast to treat depression and its effects last — but how?
In contrast to most antidepressant medications, which can take several weeks to reduce depressive symptoms, ketamine -- a commonly used...
Opening up a drug delivery route — Discovery of a new vehicle peptide
Credit: Department of Medicinal Chemistry,TMDU Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) study identifies promising lead compound for delivery of therapeutically...
Crowding inside cells may influence many functions and major diseases
Among the most studied protein machines in history, mTORC1 has long been known to sense whether a cell has enough...
Deep data dive helps predict cerebral palsy
Credit: University of Delaware/ Photo illustration by Jeffrey Chase When University of Delaware molecular biologist Adam Marsh was studying the...
Researchers uncover new target to stop cancer growth
Credit: Messenger et al., 2018 Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered that a protein called Munc13-4 helps cancer...
Scripps Research study provides new clues to improving chemotherapies
Credit: Shen Lab/Scripps Research JUPITER, FL - June 21, 2018 - About half of all drugs, ranging from morphine to...
First major study comparing robotic to open surgery published in The Lancet
Credit: Courtesy Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. The first comprehensive study comparing the outcomes of robotic surgery to those of traditional...
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